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Just Get On With It

I've been watching episodes of Mad Men, Season Two back to back, absorbing an era when people dressed incredibly well, lived and played hard, died by the time they were 62, kept their emotions to themselves, and did not go to 12-step programs or at least did not talk about them in public. If something horrible happened in their lives they would act as if it never occurred and would just get on with it. Has our society advanced? Some questions don't need to be answered.

Mad for Madness

I'm technically on vacation since yesterday through the 13th, but seeming to have less time than ever for this blog thing. Perhaps its due to the oddness of now having 100% of time for personal issues, and I'm embroiled in long overdue personal matters. Don't worry not personal matters as in crisis or self analysis and introspection (though maybe just a bit of the latter), but more personal business involving notaries and document signing. Fortunately the outcomes of all those legal documents that are going to result in nice results, mainly monetary. That' good news as I anticipate the statement for my 401K for the second quarter.

Speaking of business, I am typically late to the scene of such matters, but I'm devouring the amazing first season of Mad Men, almost like having more than a dozen hour version of Far From Heaven. It's almost perfect, in part because it evokes the first era of my life that I can still vividly recall, albeit my memories are more in the very end of that era. There are a few inaccuracies such as Selectrics in early 1960s, but everything else is so spot on and reminds me of the erotic charge I got from going to my father's office as a kid. I can remember my father buying a Selectric or two for family use when they were discarded after a couple of years, and they never stopped smelling of nicotene.

Most exciting of all is the discovery of Jon Gunn in this series who evokes the New Frontier so on target, being handsome but not in the over polished look of today's 40+ "boys". And he's only 37.